Northampton BID

Anton & Giovanni – Him & Me
2022-06-23 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Brace yourselves for the best night out when BBC Strictly Come Dancing’s newest judge and fan favourite professional Anton du Beke, and 2021 champion Giovanni Pernice team up for an unforgettable tour!
Showcasing their unrivalled rapport, they are bringing audiences a collaboration of dance, song and light-hearted fun! Joined by a world class cast of dancers and singers, ANTON and GIOVANNI are coming together to put on the show to end all shows – the ultimate entertaining night out! The Ballroom King and the Jive Master bring you HIM & ME! A true dance extravaganza for all ages.

Mark Steel – Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright
2022-06-24 20:00 - 22:00
Mark Steel brings his Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright show back to Northampton this summer!
Mark’s sell-out show Who Do I Think I Am, revealed his natural father was a world backgammon champion. Now the star of Radio 4’s Mark Steel’s In Town, and newspaper columnist of the year, is back on the road with a new show, guaranteed to make the world seem even more mental than it is.
Mark has written and presented many series of Mark Steel’s In Town on BBC Radio 4 and toured it live around the UK. Mark has presented the BAFTA nominated Mark Steel Lectures for BBC2, is a regular on BBC One’s Have I Got News For You and Radio 4’s Newsquiz. He’s also appeared on BBC2’s QI and Room 101. Mark has written several acclaimed books, including: Reasons To Be Cheerful and What’s Going On and he writes a weekly column for The Independent for which he won Columnist of the Year at the Press Awards in 2015.

Patrick Kielty – Borderline
2022-06-25 19:30 - 21:30
Bittersweet, poignant and laugh out loud funny, Borderline is a comedic love letter to the future of our islands from Patrick Kielty‘s personal past.
Borderline sees this award-winning comedian return to his satirical roots with a personal take on borders, national identity and the future of the Union in a post Brexit landscape.
As a Northern Ireland native, who grew up close to the Irish border, this new one man stand up show delves into his homeland’s recent history to try to make sense of what Brexit’s new borders and political upheaval means for our shared identities.

Dancing Schools UK
2022-06-26 10:00 - 12:00
Dancing Schools UK takes to the stage once more to welcome teams from local schools to perform in the Dancing Schools UK Grand Final 2022.
This is the ninth year of this fabulous Ballroom & Latin dance event designed to encourage school children from across the region to have a try at dancing and nurture team work. From its early days as Strictly Junior, the show has now evolved to Dancing Schools UK and seen over 3000 children having braved the stage, stepped out into the spotlight & done something they never thought they would do – dance in front of hundreds of people.

Strictly Presents -Keeeep Dancing!
2022-06-27 20:00 - 22:00
Strictly Presents: Keeeep Dancing! Is a brand new spectacular show featuring Strictly 2020 finalist and EastEnders star Maisie Smith, together with Strictly 2021 semi-finalist and CBBC Presenter Rhys Stephenson. They will be joined by the incredible Strictly professional dancers Neil Jones, Gorka Marquez, Jowita Przystal and Nancy Xu. And, as an extra special treat for Strictly fans, live music will be performed by The Wanted’s Max George, who competed in the 2020 series of the smash hit BBC One show.
Strictly Presents: Keeeep Dancing! is a spectacular new show from the Strictly family, featuring a host of your TV favourites, sharing with audiences what it is to be a dancer via stunning choreography and beautiful storytelling.

Peppa Pig’s Best Day Ever
2022-06-29 13:00 - 15:00
Peppa Pig is excited to be going on a special day out with George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig – it’s going to be her best day ever!
Get ready for a road-trip full of fun adventures. From castles to caves, dragons to dinosaurs and ice-creams to muddy puddles – there is something for all of the family and their friends to enjoy, including Miss Rabbit, Mr Bull, Suzy Sheep, Gerald Giraffe and more!
Prepare for the brand new Peppa Pig live show packed full of songs, games and laughter, it really is the best day ever for Peppa Pig fans!

Here Come The Boys
2022-07-01 19:30 - 21:30
Here Come The Boys returns with a brand-new cast and a brand-new dazzling production! Join Graziano, Nadiya, Pasha, Karim and Nikita, alongside a cutting-edge soundtrack of dance-floor anthems, club classics and guilty pleasures, in this show-stopping dance extravaganza, which promises to be the biggest party of the year!
This cast have dance credentials oozing from every pore. And lovers of dance will enjoy a show featuring some of the world’s greatest dancers, a huge LED screen and a lavish production.

Rose Royce With Gwen Dickey
2022-07-02 19:30 - 21:30
Don’t miss the opportunity to see the Grammy Award-winning, nine-piece Los Angeles band Rose Royce when they reform with Gwen Dickey for one night only.
Gwen was the voice that shined brightly on the international Rose Royce hits Car Wash, Wishing On A Star, Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, I Wanna Get Next To You, Is It Love You’re After and many more.
Experience Rose Royce as they were always meant to be – with the original vocalist – at this very rare appearance from the ’80s superstar.

Limelight Theatre School – Thank You For The Music
2022-07-03 13:00 - 15:00
Limelight Theatre School are thrilled to be back once again with another sensational show. These talented pupils are taking you on a journey back to the 1970s and bringing you the best numbers and songs from an amazing decade of music.
A great show for all the family!

The Rocky Horror Show
2022-07-04 20:00 - 22:00
Ready to thrill you with fun and naughty moments, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show returns to Northampton as part of a sell-out worldwide tour, having been seen by over 30 million theatregoers.
Starring Strictly Come Dancing winner Ore Oduba as Brad, the Rocky Horror Show is a guaranteed party and features timeless classics, including Sweet Transvestite, Damn it Janet, and of course, the pelvic-thrusting, show-stopping Time Warp.
Directed by Christopher Luscombe, The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squeaky clean college kids – Brad and his fiancée Janet. When by a twist of fate, their car breaks down outside a creepy mansion whilst on their way to visit their former college professor, they meet the charismatic Dr Frank’n’Furter. It is an adventure they’ll never forget, filled with fun, frolics, frocks, and frivolity.

Seussical Jr.
2022-07-08 20:00 - 22:00
Dr Seuss’ best-loved characters collide, cavort and spring to life on stage in an unforgettable musical caper performed by Royal & Derngate’s Youth Theatre and Young Company Musicals and directed by Trudy A Bell (The Masks We Wear, Macbeth). Seussical Jr. is a fantastical musical extravaganza from Tony Award-winners, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Transporting audiences from the Jungle of Nool to Circus McGurkus, the Cat in the Hat leads the story of Horton the Elephant, who discovers a speck of dust containing tiny people called the Whos. A magical musical production suitable for all ages.

NMPAT – Generations
2022-07-10 12:00 - 14:00
NMPAT Summer Festival of Music: New Generation Concert – 12pm
Performances by the County Junior Orchestra, Junior Wind Orchestra, Junior Brass Band, Junior String Orchestra and Jazz 3.
Interval estimated 1pm and approximate end time 2.15pm.
NMPAT Summer Festival of Music: Second Generation Concert – 6pm
Performances by the County Training Orchestra, Training Wind Orchestra, Training String Orchestra, Guitarlactica, NMPAT Singers and Jazz 2.
Interval estimated 7pm and approximate end time 8.15pm.

Jimmy Carr – Terribly Funny
2022-07-12 20:00 - 22:00
Jimmy’s latest show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. But they’re just jokes – they are not the terrible things.
Having political correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo.
Now you’ve been warned, buy a ticket.

The Mayhew School Of Dance & Performing Arts: Once Upon A Time
2022-07-13 19:00 - 21:00
The Mayhew School Of Dance & Performing Arts, Northampton’s oldest established dance school, presents Once Upon A Time, a journey into the realm of faerie. Join us to celebrate with these young dancers and performers as they return to the stage.
The performance will also include works created for the Mayhew Youth Dance Company, and the inaugural performance of the school’s newly formed inclusive dance group, Envision.

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
2022-07-15 19:30 - 21:30
Our very own The Actors Company takes on one of the giants of modern classic theatre, directed by Scott Bradley. Bertolt Brecht’s epic play is vast in its scope, yet human at its heart, setting the grotesque against the hilarious, with a backdrop of war and revolution.
Featuring live and looped soundscapes using the incredible skills of spoken word poet and musician David Bowden (Word Guerrilla) this exciting and dynamic production explores themes of justice, motherhood and social corruption through the medium of a distant fairy tale, the ‘play within the play’.

Open Stage – Reimagination
2022-07-17 14:30 - 16:30
Open Stage are so pleased to return to the Derngate stage with the entire performing arts school of children and adults, plus special guests, performing their own re-imagined works of well-known stories retold through a combination of Ballet, Tap, Modern, Classical Greek, Jazz, Acrobatic Arts and Musical Theatre.
It is the highlight of their year! Open Stage Performing Arts is a professional theatre school for ages 2+. They also deliver community arts sessions across a wide variety of genres including the Open Stage Adult Choir.

And In The End – A Celebration Of 50 Years Of Abbey Road And Let It Be
2022-07-26 19:30 - 21:30
Following on from their hugely successful tour in 2017/18, the award-winning Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the nation’s premier Beatles group, The Bootleg Beatles, join forces once again to deliver a Beatles experience like no other.
Experience two of the Beatles’ most iconic albums performed afresh in this special musical collaboration, adding a classical twist and performing beautifully arranged symphonic versions of these timeless classics, including masterpieces such as Here Comes The Sun, Come Together and The Long And Winding Road.
The tour marks 50 years since the release of these final two albums – Abbey Road (released 26 September 1969) and Let It Be (released 8 May 1970), and will explore the journey to the end of The Beatles – celebrating the music of this era and the legacy that endures to this day. This unique live staging will be an unmissable event for Beatles fans of all ages!
We were deeply saddened and shocked to hear of the death of Neil Innes who was due to present this show – he will be greatly missed. This concert will go ahead as planned, and further updates will be confirmed in due course.

Glenn Moore – Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I’m Sixty Moore
2022-09-10 20:00 - 22:00
Edinburgh Comedy Award “Best Show” nominee Glenn Moore is one of the best joke writers of his generation and is back on tour in Autumn 2022. Expect a “comedy masterclass” (The Times) and a high-energy barrage of the most jokes you’ve ever heard humanely fit into one stand-up show.
As seen/heard on Mock The Week (BBC2), The Stand-Up Sketch Show (ITV2),The Dave Berry Breakfast Show (Absolute Radio) and The Now Show (BBC Radio 4).

Russell Kane – The Essex Variant
2022-09-10 20:00 - 22:00
Russell Kane‘s bringing to town his gut-punch funny, searing, award-winning take on the two years we’ve just gone through.
Hailed as The Guardian’s “Number 1 comedy performance to come out of 2020”, this high-octane show brings nuclear-energy belly laughs and pant-wetting observations which prove laughter really is the best medicine* (*actually, it’s probably hospital medicine).
Russell Kane currently has two chart-topping, award-bagging podcasts in Man Baggage and Evil Genius and is a regular on Channel 4, BBC, and ITV and all the usual shows you see funny people on. He’s also a writer, actor, and presenter. He drinks lots of coffee and is “like that in real life”.
He was the first ever comedian to bag the two most prestigious comedy awards on earth in the same year, for the same show: The Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards (formerly The Perrier), and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award, (formerly known as the Barry Award). He’s also a raving bighead that likes listing his achievements.

Friendsical
2022-09-14 19:30 - 21:30
The 2019 Edinburgh Festival smash-hit Friendsical is an original and unique new parody musical inspired by the gang in Friends, the iconic TV show.
When Ross’s wife leaves him for another woman, he fears he will never find love again. But then Rachel runs back into his life…will he end up with his one true love?
With original new songs such as (He’s her) Lobster!, Richard’s Moustache and You’re Over Me, When Were You Under Me?, the gang take on naked Thursdays, a power cut, and a dinosaur convention! What could possibly go wrong?
This is a loving parody not to be confused with the Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. series Friends

Screaming Blue Murder Comedy Club
2022-09-17 20:00 - 22:00
Don’t miss our comedy club in the Underground Studio with compere Dan Evans.
This season features many of comedy’s rising stars.
Doors 7.45pm Show 8pm.

Kim Wilde: Greatest Hits Tour
2022-09-18 19:30 - 21:30
Following the Worldwide success of Here Come The Aliens and the recent live album Aliens Live, Kim Wilde and her incredible band are heading back on the road in 2020 with Kim’s Greatest Hits Tour. Featuring hit singles from 1981 to 2020, this will be an unmissable event not only for Kim Wilde fans, but also for fans of the 80s.
Featuring classics such as Kids In America, Hangin’ On, You Came and other less often heard hits like A Million Miles Away and Love Is Holy – this is going to be the definitive Kim Wilde show.
As with all Kim’s shows, the lighting and sound is always first class…stunning visuals and of course, the most exciting band in the business… including the legendary two drummers!
Kim’s special guests on this tour are the amazing China Crisis who had hits such as Wishful Thinking and King In A Catholic Style.

Ed Gamble – Electric
2022-09-21 19:30 - 21:30
After a sell-out tour of his house in 2020 (extended into 2021 due to popular demand), Ol’ Broken Pancreas is charged up and ready to flick the switch on another night of attention seeking.
Co-host of the award-winning mega-hit podcast Off Menu with James Acaster, Taskmaster champion, and has his own special Blood Sugar available worldwide on Amazon Prime.
As seen and heard on Mock the Week, Live At the Apollo, The Russell Howard Hour, QI, Would I Lie To You and Sunday mornings on Radio X alongside Matthew Crosby.

Justin Hayward – The Voice Of The Moody Blues
2022-09-22 19:30 - 21:30
Justin Hayward’s career is now in its fifth decade. He is best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and composer for the iconic Moody Blues, whose hits include the masterful Nights In White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Question, The Voice plus other classic, era and genre-defining hits. These tracks laid the foundation for the incredible success story of the Moody Blues – as well as Hayward’s solo work –which continues to this day.
A rare chance for Justin’s fans to connect with one of music’s keenest talents and to hear the music that he loves presented with a truly personal touch.

The Night Sky Show
2022-09-23 19:30 - 22:00
Using amazing visual effects, The Night Sky Show will take you on an epic journey across the cosmos from our celestial back yard.
A night for anyone who wants to laugh, learn and enjoy. Hosted by Adrian West (best known as VirtualAstro on social media), author, and one of the most popular online astronomy personalities.
A memorable theatrical experience for all.
Journey around the constellations, stars, planets and more, with entertaining tours, stories, and the endless possibilities of our future with the night sky and beyond!

The Cube Disability Arts Academy – Cube Love 2022
2022-09-24 19:00 - 21:00
Cube Love 2022 is coming to Royal & Derngate this September and is the highly anticipated sequel to last year’s incredible production.
Immerse yourself in the talent our The Cube Disability Arts Academy students have to offer and come and support all their hard work as we put them front and centre stage for a night you will not forget.
Set to be our biggest production yet, this is one you will not want to miss, book early to avoid disappointment and come and spread the Cube Love!

Dawn French Is A Huge Tw*t
2022-09-25 19:30 - 22:00
A statement from Dawn French:
“This show is so-named because unfortunately, it’s horribly accurate.
There have been far too many times I have made stupid mistakes or misunderstood something vital or jumped the gun in a spectacular display of tw*ttery.
I thought I might tell some of these buttock-clenching embarrassing stories to give the audience a peek behind the scenes of my work life…
Roll up! Book early to see the telly vicar lady be a total tw*t on stage, live in front of your very eyes. And ears.”

Essential 80s Featuring Paul Young + T’Pau + Hue & Cry
2022-09-27 19:00 - 21:00
The decade of fun and flamboyancy, the era of music videos, the 12 inch, compilation CDs and some of the most enduring popstars in the world! Essential ’80s brings the very best chart-topping artists of the era to the stage for a nostalgic tour of everyone’s favourites!
Eighties heartthrob Paul Young, shot to fame with his much-loved album No Parlez’ followed by a steam of top 10 hits such as Wherever I Lay My Hat, Love Of The Common People, Everytime You Go Away’ and Everything Must Change.
Carol Decker of T’Pau, broke hearts with her powerful vocals on huge hits such as China in Your Hands and the uniquely arranged debut single Heart and Soul. The flame-haired songstress became a teen icon in the ’80s for many a young girl who aspired to be like her!
Scottish duo Hue & Cry were a force majeure with their high energy hit Labour Of Love. Their seminal album Remote was released to not only huge acclaim but to multi-platinum success, spawning the singles Ordinary Angel, Violently and Looking For Linda.
VIP Package Includes:
Meet & Greet with Paul Young
Premium Seats in the first few rows
VIP laminate and lanyard
Signed tour print

Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited – Foxtrot At Fifty + Hackett Highlights
2022-09-28 19:45 - 22:30
Hot on the heels of his most successful solo tour ever, Steve Hackett brings his Foxtrot At Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour to Northampton in 2022. The tour will mark the 50th anniversary of the legendary Genesis album Foxtrot which, in 1972, was pivotal in establishing the band as a major force in British rock.
Guitarist Steve Hackett joined Genesis in 1971, making his band debut on the Nursery Cryme album which enjoyed a greater commercial success in Europe than the UK. After extensive touring, the band were encouraged, by audience reactions, to further experiment with ever longer compositions and develop their ability to incorporate strong narratives. This, in turn, allowed frontman Peter Gabriel more opportunity to indulge in the theatrics which helped to raise the band’s profile.

Martin Bayfield’s Rugby Legends
2022-09-30 19:30 - 21:30
From the police beat to the Hollywood movie screen to a Five Nations Grand Slam and MasterChef final, Martin Bayfield has had a varied life!
Join the former England international and true giant of the game as he embarks on his Rugby Legends UK tour. Martin will take to the stage with former players to reveal never-heard-before stories and incredible insight into the sport we all treasure.
The audience can expect stories with soon to be announced special guests about international games, local teams; legends emerging from coal mines, farms, police stations, classrooms, universities. Matches played on 6” of grass, mud in the winter, hard pan in the autumn and spring months. Riotous end of season tours and half cooked lasagne or chilli con carne after the game washed down with beer, then the long, meandering journey home.
